Volpone's Chest? The Take of a Trunk

Thornton discusses a trunk from Stonyhurst College in Lancashire, which had been found walled in Salmesbury Hall in Lancashire, a known Catholic safe house in the 17th century. The trunk was a kind used by travelers and pedlars around 1600, but was even more remarkable for the traveling Mass kit it contained, one used by generations of Catholic mission priests operating from Salmesbury. It contains patched Catholic vestments, embroidered handkerchiefs for use as corporals, a simple chalcedony rosary, a small altar stone, and a plain pewter chalice for celebrating the Mass in secret.